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simonw • yesterday at 11:09 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade:

  2006-03-14  $0.150/GB-month
  2010-11-01  $0.140/GB-month
  2012-02-01  $0.125/GB-month
  2012-12-01  $0.095/GB-month
  2014-02-01  $0.085/GB-month
  2014-04-01  $0.030/GB-month
  2016-12-01  $0.023/GB-month
Today it's still $0.023/GB-month.

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OrangeDelonge • yesterday at 11:59 PM

I guess inflation is the price reduction we get. 23 cents in 2016 is 32 cents in 2026

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kondro • yesterday at 11:18 PM

That's true for the base S3 product, but there are a lot more storage tiers than there used to be with cheaper pricing. All the way to $0.99/TB for Deep Archive.

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charcircuit • yesterday at 11:41 PM

Egress pricing of $0.09/GB has been around for over a decade too.

For reference transit cost has dropped over the years and is now about at $0.000247/GB or free if there is a peering agreement with the network the data is sent to.

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